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Jenny Clarke
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Words and yarn, music and cooking, food and flowers.
Wunt be druv.
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One actor. Every character. Mitch Benn brings Dickens to life in this electrifying one man performance.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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It's a bit black over Bill's mother's.
Brighton pavilion and huge, ominous clouds.
September 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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A different type of day out. And seats right by the action.
New Zealand women's rugby team warming up ahead of their game against Ireland. Bright green grass, rugby players in all black. In the foreground are official photographers. In the distance, blue seats of the stadium waiting for their ticket holders to arrive.
September 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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A day out! A favourite play!
The programme for The Merry Wives of Windsor at The Globe. It's placed on a wooden table, with a small coffee to one side.
August 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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What? You mean we actually had decent weather for a bank holiday weekend?
A Sussex church against a bright blue sky.
August 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I thought blackbirds were the messiest bathers, but a pair of magenpies have almost completely emptied the bird bath.
August 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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If you need me, I'll be Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Tom Lehrer performing in Copenhagen
July 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A day out. An assortment of railway stations. A bird on a post.
Bird on a post. It's a white-topped, black post with a gull sitting atop. Behind is an assortment of sailing vessels. A snap of gloriously rusty cross-strengthening of a foot bridge over a different station. Grey skies above a distant clock tower, taken from a railway station platform (4A, in case you needed to know).
July 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I've recently changed podcast app, and so all of Page 94 episodes have reappeared. I'm enjoying dipping into them in a random fashion. Episode 71 suggests an update will be forthcoming in July 2025. I trust it is in hand?!
June 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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In Mornington Crescent, invoking the Chatham House Rule requires that four of the last five stations are exclusively on the District Line. Thereafter each player has to act like they can’t remember the other contestants previous selections. Its occurrence in the game is mercifully rare.
May 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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And now I've had 6 starlings in the bird bath. Which I now need to refill: they're as messy bathers as blackbirds. More so, since they were in quantity.
dottedcrotchet.bsky.social Jenny Clarke @dottedcrotchet.bsky.social · May 1
I think I just heard a swift! And now there's an annoyed blackbird on the fence. But a swift! On May day!

@lewesswifts.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I think I just heard a swift! And now there's an annoyed blackbird on the fence. But a swift! On May day!

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May 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Week 4 saw more trains, another library knit and natter, another book club, another pub, and offering up a sleeve to see if it was long enough.
A collage of five pictures, showing my Alzheimer's Research tote in a train and in front of cask ale pumps. There's a lacy crochet sleeve on my shoulder, and another shot of it in a shaft of sunshine.
March 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Week 3 done, with two pub visits, some darning, and the completion of a lacy scarf. Crochet 🧶 every day in March.
Alzheimer's Research fundraiser.

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A four part picture. Top left is needle, thread, and tweed jacket. Top right and bottom left show my "knit every day in March" tote bag on pub tables, with a beer in the background. Bottom right is a checked wool coat with a lacy crochet scarf in pinks, blues, greys, and teal.
March 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Week 2 of my Alzheimer's Research challenge was much quieter, with most of my 🧶 crochet being done at home. But it's the Bluebell Railway branch line weekend, so some gricing was needed.
A vibrant green bench on the platform at a preserved railway, with a Horsted Keynes panel on the top. My tote bag for knit every day in March is sitting there. There is an old enamel advert on the wall behind.
March 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Week 1 went well, with crochet in the gardens at Glyndebourne, in a train, at a local library knit & natter, at book club in the pub, and on the sofa at home.
A collage of six photos. Two show crochet in progress: a pale yarn topped with a metallic yarn in a spiral. The others show my yarn bag in a formal garden, on a train, in front of a library display, and with a reading book on a pub table.
March 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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To support a good cause, and to hopefully get some of my WIPs turned into finished objects, I'm aiming to knit or crochet every day in March.

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Jenny Clarke is fundraising on behalf of Alzheimer's Research UK
Want to join me in supporting a good cause? I'm taking on Knit Every Day in March -- although I'm probably going to be doing as much crochet as knitting -- to raise money for the one million people th...
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March 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I've discovered that pomegranate seeds in a G&T are as good as, if not better than, a lava lamp.
February 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Do you think I can get away with using these four together?
Four skeins of yarn. Left is a peachy plain. Then an off-white with peach and pink and yellow. Third is an apple sort of green with dark purple splodges. At the right end is off-white with a little green.
January 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Well, people arrived, they stayed, they left again, and I didn't kill any of them. Chalk that up as a positive.
January 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Can I claim justifiable homicide? A bit like the divorce in the advert for Bendicks.
January 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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We have visitors coming on Friday for dinner. I'm absolutely frozen with terror. I can cook. I can cook for numbers of people. But somehow this time I'm completely blank.
January 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Bright and sunny, but chilly today.
A picture of a pebble beach, with a row of red & white stripey deck chairs, their fabric billowing in the wind. The sun is striking the sea through a couple of layers of cloud. To me, the picture is winter by the sea.
January 7, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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Few wildlife spectacles epitomise the brutality of the natural world quite like the sight of a black-headed gull, carrying a croissant the size of its head, being chased by eight herring gulls over Morrison’s car park.
January 6, 2024 at 2:59 PM